Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Project to Work on From Home

With the cancellation of clubs everywhere, this can be a great time to start projects that extend over several weeks. Here are a few projects that take an extended amount of time- both for the Legacy and Pathways Program.


Legacy Projects:
Competent Leader:
Project Six:

  • There are many Divisions and Districts that are working to pull off an online competition. You can volunteer to help in one of those contests and get credit for helping organize a speech contest.
  • Another option for project six is helping with the online presence of the club. This is a great time to go through the web presence of the club and make sure everything is accurate. 
Project Nine:
  • If someone in your club is working on their High Performance Leadership Project, you can volunteer to be a part of it. 
Project Ten:
  • If you chair a contest, you can complete project ten in the Competent Leader manual. 
  • Another option for completing Project Ten is to serve as the webmaster in your club.
High Performance Leadership Project: (Works for Pathways and Legacy)
1. Read the High Performance Leadership manual for their background

2. Come up with an idea for a project (IE: leadership campaign, Speechcraft, Youth Leadership)

3. Recruit a guidance committee to work with you on your project

4. Meet with your guidance committee to go over what you have in mind

5. Create your mission statement, vision, and values. Run these by your committee

6. Present your first speech to your club about your project

7. Create your Roles Goals and Timetable for your project

8. Recruit and Action Team

9. Create your action plan on how you are going to achieve your goals in your time limit

10. Meet with your action team and guidance committee to review your progress and how things are working. Overcome problems, if any, and reevaluate your plan if needed

11. Results: go over your results with your team and evaluate how your plan went

12. Present your results to your club with a speech

Pathways:
Level One:
Researching and Presenting:

  • This is a good time to complete any research that needs to be done to put together a speech on any topic that you wish. 
Level Three:
Focus on the Positive:
  • This project takes a minimum of two weeks with writing daily in a journal on feelings, what you are grateful for and behavior. 
Level Four:
Manage Projects Successfully:
  • For Manage Projects, you will need to decide on a project, which can be used for later projects within your path, and carry it out for whatever length of time you deem appropriate. This project does require collaboration with at least three people. 
  • Suggestion for Project: Help plan a contest that is now online
  • Suggestion for Project: Lead the club transition to online meetings
  • Suggestion for Project: Create a new member packet for your club
Create a Podcast: 
  • Record 60 minutes of content for your podcast (in sections or one podcast) and share the podcast with your club. 
Building a Social Media Presence:
  • Take this time to either review and enhance or build the social media presence for your club. 
Write a Blog:
  • This requires you to write a minimum of 8 blog posts over the span of a month. You may choose to have your blog evaluated by members of the club.
Create a Public Relations Strategy:
  • To complete this project, map out a public relations plan which can be used in future projects if desired. 
Level Five:
High Performance Leadership Project (See above)
Leading in Your Volunteer Organization:

  • If you have served in a leadership position for six months, or are volunteering in another organization for six months, ask members who have worked with you to fill out the 360 evaluation form. Create a succession plan for the person who will replace you in that position, and reflect on the position that you were in. 
Bonus: 
Level Four
Conduct an Online Meeting
  • With many clubs turning to online meetings, you can complete the project for leading an online meeting!
Level Five:
Ethical Leadership Panel
  • Moderate a panel for a 20 to 40 minutes discussion on ethics, with a Q&A session. 
Lessons Learned:
  • For a project that has already been completed, facilitate a discussion about the project and review how everything was handled. Have each member fill out a 360 evaluation form. 
Moderate a Panel Discussion
  • Moderate a panel for 20 to 40 minutes on any topic 

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